Social Studies WWI Quest

Question 1

What were the three countries in the Triple Alliance

Answer 1

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Question 2

What were the three countries in the Triple Entente

Answer 2

Great Britain, France, and Russia

Question 3

What were the three countries of the Central Powers

Answer 3

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

Question 4

Kaiser Wilhelm II led what nation

Answer 4

Germany

Question 5

Why did Great Britain join the allies in WWI

Answer 5

Because Germany invaded (neutral) Belgium

Question 6

What were the details of the Schlieffen Plan in WWI

Answer 6

It was the German Military strategy to quickly defeat France because it was a bigger threat, and then focus on Russia in the east

Question 7

Which member of the Triple Alliance did not become part of the central powers once WWI broke out

Answer 7

Italy

Question 8

Although the allies won the war, what country did not enjoy the benefits because it surrendered to Germany almost a year before Germany was defeated

Answer 8

Russia

Question 9

Russia mobilized for war when what country was invaded

Answer 9

Serbia

Question 10

The spark that started the war occured when the future leader of what region was assassinated

Answer 10

Archduke Franz Ferdinand; future leader of Austria-Hungary

Question 11

Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 11

Gavrilo Princip

Question 12

What nationality was Gavrilo Princip

Answer 12

Serbian

Question 13

On which front did the Germans battle the French

Answer 13

The eastern front

Question 14

What nations were created out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after WWI

Answer 14

Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary

Question 15

What is the number of estimated human deaths for the US alone and how long did the US fight

Answer 15

116,000 American deaths; around 9 months

Question 16

What is the number of estimated human costs on the WWI battlefields (total)

Answer 16

Around 10 million dead, 21 million wounded

Question 17

What treaty between the Allied Powers and Germany was signed exactly 5 years after the assassination of Francis Ferdinand

Answer 17

The Treaty of Versailles

Question 18

On which front was trench warfare most common

Answer 18

The Western front

Question 19

What were the two important Allied victories that were won on a river in 1914 and 1918

Answer 19

The Battle of the Marne and the 2nd Battle of the Marne

Question 20

What was the event that first turned US public opinion against Germany prior to the US entering WWI

Answer 20

The sinking of the Lusitania

Question 21

What was the final straw that brought the US into WWI against Germany

Answer 21

Germans agreed to help Mexico

Question 22

What was the name of the message from Germany to Mexico, intercepted by the US

Answer 22

The Zimmerman Note

Question 23

What were the three reasons that the US joined the war on the Allies’ side

Answer 23

American ships were sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, the Zimmerman Note, and the fact that the US has a good trading relationship with Great Britain

Question 24

What weapons were introduced during WWI (6 things)

Answer 24

The machine gun, tank, airplane, poison gas, new heavy artillery, and the submarine, or U-Boat

Question 25

What were the four long-term causes of WWI

Answer 25

Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and the Alliance System

Question 26

European countries competing to have the biggest and strongest armies and navies would be an example of what

Answer 26

Militarism

Question 27

European countries were divided into two major sides. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy were on one side, and France, Great Britain, and Russia on the other. What is this an example of

Answer 27

Alliance System

Question 28

The people living in Europe often gave their greatest loyalty to those who share their history, culture, and language because of what

Answer 28

Nationalism

Question 29

Why did countries in Europe compete with each other for colonies in places like Africa and Southeast Asia

Answer 29

Imperialism

Question 30

What nationality was Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 30

Austrian

Question 31

The Germans made great progress fighting who on which front

Answer 31

Fighting Russians on the Eastern front

Question 32

Which of the long-term causes is most closely related to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and why

Answer 32

Nationalism; Gavrilo Princip was a Serb, and he wanted to stay true to his country. We wanted Serbia to rule over Bosnia instead of Austria-Hungary ruling Bosnia